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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.browsers.x,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Netscape - this is ridiculous
Date: 22 Jun 1995 13:01:38 +0200
Organization: Private U**x site, Dresden.
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References: <1995Jun18.022947.20174@rhrk.uni-kl.de> <JWZ.95Jun19165655@abattoir.netscape.com> <3s64aj$n87@kadath.zeitgeist.net> <JWZ.95Jun21020306@abattoir.netscape.com>
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Jamie Zawinski <jwz@netscape.com> wrote:
> struct utsname uts;
> if (uname (&uts) < 0)
> ... print error message ...
>
>So it would appear that the uname() call always fails.
Can you stick a ``perror(0)'' there?
According to the man page of uname(2), the only possible error is an
EFAULT, i.e. the size of `uts' doesn't match the kernel's expect-
ation.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)